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...home, Twain and Lange hike, ride horses and eat at local restaurants. Every morning the world's biggest commercial singer grabs an acoustic guitar and goes into a centuries-old wine cave to write songs--just for herself. "I write crazy things," she says, "vulnerable things that I wouldn't want to play for anybody." She records these songs on a handheld cassette player and plays them only for her husband...
...hike through Kamchatka, in Russia's Far East, you will probably meet more brown bears along the trail than foreign tourists. The first bear we encountered, a ragged eight-footer, ignored us as it lumbered squarely in our path while foraging for blueberries. Our guide fired his rifle into the air to no avail. After an hour's wait in cold drizzle, we crept past the munching behemoth, which glanced at us indifferently. A mile or so later, a mother with two cubs charged at us from the far side of a stream but lost interest as we scurried away...
...would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places on earth...
...whopping 40%) would set a costly precedent for other public employees. If the government starts doling out that kind of cash, money would have to be taken away from its core goal of improving hospitals and schools in tangible ways by the next general election - either that, a tax hike or more borrowing. "We have been met, I am afraid, by a claim that is unreasonable," said Blair, "and if we yield to that claim then the consequences to the rest of the economy are absolutely dire...
...urgency of compromise. Instead, the government and the fbu both hardened their positions. Emboldened by the success of emergency measures - using over 18,000 troops and 827 50-year-old firetrucks known as Green Goddesses - the government said the union must take or leave its final offer: an 11% hike over two years that would take the average fireman's annual salary to €37,500. The FBU is asking for 40%, but hinted it would accept 16%. Determined to forestall a wider public services walkout, ministers warned that future FBU strikes might be outlawed. "We have bent over backward...